Sorry for the late answer. The preferred solution here is to run the Desktop as a virtualized guest on a server.
Regards, Daniel On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 08:57 +0200, Peter Åstrand wrote: > Daniel Riek wrote: > > >Yes, that channel will contain the Desktop packages not included in the > >Server tree. > > As an ISV providing a thin client product, we get a lot of questions from > our customers wrt which Linux distribution they should choose. One common > usage scenario for our product is to publish Linux desktops (possibly with > Windows applications as well) to thin clients. This requires servers with > modern applications and desktop environments, but also stability and > scalability. The trend of segmenting distributions into dedicated > "desktop" or "server" editions is a major problem with thin client setups: > > If you choose the "server" edition, you'll have to do without the > modern desktop and applications such as Evolution and OpenOffice. This > is typically not acceptable. > > If you choose the client edition, you will get other problems: Sometimes > no web server is included (which is required for accessing the desktop > from a web browser), no enterprise-kernels etc. > > Another problem might be > licensing. http://www.redhat.com/rhel/desktop/compare/#note_2 > indicates that using RHEL Desktop on a terminal server would be a > licensing violation. I've contacted Red Hat about this, but I'm still > waiting for an answer. > > > >Now, the goal is not to enable widespread client installation of the > >server variant - we have a client for that - or use as "terminal-server" > >kind-of setups - there virtualization is the recommended solution: In > >cases where these approaches do not fit, the Optional Productivity Apps > >channel will provide an alternative. > > I don't understand how virtualization could help with a > terminal-server setup. Are you suggesting that each user should have > their own, personal desktop OS running in virtual machines on the > server (VDI-style)? In most cases, this is very sub-optimal, and not very > well supported with most thin client products. > > > >The support though will be limited to maintenance (bug- and security > >fixes). The current plan is to have Customer Service give it to > >customers requiring it. I will post an announcement on this channel as > >soon as it is ready. > > Thanks. > > Regards, > --- > Peter Åstrand ThinLinc Chief Developer > Cendio AB http://www.cendio.se > Teknikringen 3 > 583 30 Linköping Phone: +46-13-21 46 00 > _______________________________________________ rhelv5-list mailing list > [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rhelv5-list -- Daniel Riek, Product Manager Red Hat Enterprise Linux, Red Hat Inc. E-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.redhat.com/ Key-FP: 3DD7 C376 C3E0 1917 9A63 6343 5A26 2C59 6C07 6F32
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